20 REPORTS OF COMMITTi^rS. 



Lady Burns, No. 524 Ayrshire Herd Book, was three years 

 old, June 20, 1870. She calved January 18, 1870. Her yield of 

 milk for the specified six days in June and September, was 106 and 

 73 pounds respectively. She is due to calve, December 30th, next. 



Cleopatra, No. 311 Ayrshire Herd Book, was three years old, 

 May 20, 1870. She dropped her last calf, June 19, last, and her 

 milk, for the last six days of the same month weighed 166 pounds. 

 For the six designated days iii September, her milk weighed 135 

 pounds. 



The keeping of the cows, here entered for premiums, has been, 

 in summer, such pasture as is afforded at Maplewood, with four 

 quarts of " shorts," and from one to two quarts of corn meal per 

 day. Occasionally, a little oil and cotton seed meal has been sub- 

 stituted for an equal quantity of corn meal. In winter, good hay, 

 with corn stover, and such fodder as is usual to ordinary farming, 

 with a small feed of Mangolds or Swedes at noon. 



The same quantity of grain is fed as in summer. The feed of 

 the different animals is varied by their condition and circumstances, 

 but the above statement is sufficiently accurate for all practical 

 purposes. 



In addition to the foregoing, I submit tabulated statements, show- 

 ing the quantity of milk given by each cow and heifer entered for 

 premiums, for the term of one year, to which the attention of the 

 committee is respectfully called. 



E. T. MILES. 



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GRADE BULLS. 



The committee on Grade Bulls make the following report : 



BULLS MORE THAN TWO YEARS OLD. 



1st premium to Thomas Gibson, of Fitchburg, for his 



Grade Alderney, 4 years old, $5 00 



2d premium to Franklin Nourse, of Sterling, for his Na- 

 tive Bull, 2 years old, 3 00 



YEARLING BULLS. 



2d premium to S. G. Mirick, Princeton, 2 00 



